But here, your swords won’t do, nor your army. Here you will have to go alone, because it is a going inward. You have to go to your own center. And it cannot be given because you already have it. It has only to be known, discovered.”
Live each moment as if this is the last moment: put all at stake, risk all and you will be immensly surprised that life becomes a tremendous miracle. Everything starts vibrating with life, everything becomes a message. Every flower becomes a bible or a koran or a gita, and every star becomes a proof, enough proof that life is not just a material. Every experience of beauty proves that life is more than matter. Every time you say aha! you are saying a prayer.”
Let me repeat. Without effort you will never reach it, with effort nobody has ever reached it. You will need great effort, and only then there comes a moment.when effort becomes futile. But it becomes futile only when you have come to the very peak of it, never before it. When you have come to the very pinnacle of your effort — all that you can do you have done — then suddenly there is no need to do anything any more. You drop the effort.
But nobody can drop it in the middle, it can be dropped only at the extreme end. So go to the extreme end if you want to drop it. Hence I go on insisting: make as much effort as you can, put your whole energy and total heart in it, so that one day you can see — now effort is not going to lead me anywhere. And that day it will not be you who will drop the effort, it drops on its own accord. And when it drops on its own accord, meditation happens.
